Police have revealed that after their kidnapper shot himself in the head just inches from them, Alexandria Bain turned to her younger sister Kyliyah and said, 'Now we can go home'.

Rescued by police after a late night tip-off from a member of the public, officers stumbled across Alexandria, 12 and Kyliyah, 8, lying on their stomachs in the thick undergrowth along with their kidnapper, Adam Mayes, 35.

Having swarmed the remote woods near New Albany, Mississippi after receiving the anonymous phone call, it was a keen-eyed officer who caught a glimpse of a blonde head of hair peeking over a ridge as Mayes attempted to evade capture.

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Taken: Eight-year-old Kyliyah, left, and her sister Alexandria,
12, right, were found on Thursday with Mayes and were mere inches away from him when he ended his own life

'We saw something lying down by the wood line that caught our attention. We took another five steps, and I gazed around and saw one of the children. An officer started hollering, 'Get your hands up,' said Master Sgt. Steve Crawford at a news conference to mark the girls rescue.

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While the girls lifted their hands as slowly as they could, Mayes only raised one hand, the other held a 9mm pistol.

'Mayes raised his hand and I could see the gun,' said Crawford.

Adam Mayes, 35, shot himself in the head Thursday evening May 10, 2012 after authorities, acting on a tip, found him and the girls near New Albany

A member of the media inspects the scene where Adam Mayes shot and killed himself when he was confronted by members of local law enforcement, in Alpine, Mississippi, May 11, 2012

Blood is spotted where Adam Mayes shot and killed himself when he was confronted by members of local law enforcement, in Alpine, Mississippi

'I hollered 'gun' three times to let my team know, and then Mayes got on his knees. He never brandished the gun toward us, but at that time he took his life.'

Shooting himself just inches away from the young girls, emergency workers tried to save his life but his wounds were too severe.

The young girls were 'eaten up with poison ivy and insect bites', dehydrated and starving but didn't cry, even after the ordeal they had experienced according to CNN

'When these children get to where they can speak, and calm down, I'm sure we'll find out more detail,' said a local police spokesman.

By taking his own life with a single gunshot to the head, Mayes ended a two-week manhunt that spanned several states and saw his elevation onto the FBI's 'Ten Most Wanted' list overnight.

Suspected of killing Alexandria and Kyliyah's sister Adrienne, 14 and their mother, JoAnn, 37, Mayes had become convinced that he was the two younger girl's father.

Aaron T. Ford, special agent in charge of the FBI's Memphis office, speaks during a news conference concerning the ongoing investigation of Adam Mayes

The two rescued girls had been living with JoAnn and her husband Gary Bain and the entire family were planning to move away to Arizona at the end of the school year.

Despite the tumultuous two weeks the girls have lived through, police were pleased with the dramatic recovery and rescue.

'A lot of prayers were answered when we found these two young ladies to be safe,' said Crawford.

Receiving a drink of water after officers took them away from the scene of Mayes suicide, the girls were taken by two female agents to Le Bonheur Children's Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.

These details come as four neighbours of Mayes were arrested in connection with the case, authorities said on Friday, one day after the man committed suicide.

'Family friend': Adam Mayes with Adrienne Bain, who he is alleged to have killed along with her mother, and her sister Alexandria. Mayes's wife has now said Adam's motive was to kidnap the two youngest Bain girls

Treated: Though seemingly fine, the two girls were taken to Baptist Memorial Hospital in New Albany, Mississippi, where Adam Mayes was declared dead by a doctor

Police did not say how the four
additional people arrested - including a husband and wife and the adult
son of the husband - were linked to the Mayes case. The couple were
arrested for possessing a weapon and the son had been wanted previously
by Mississippi authorities.

Mayes was also under investigation
for child abuse, it has been revealed, and was accused of molesting a
seven-year-old girl he babysat in 2010.

The police report, obtained by WMC-TV, says that Mayes was babysitting for the girl when a family member walked in on him shaving the girl’s legs.

She was not wearing clothing, the police report stated.

Left behind: Medical supplies still litter the scene the scene where Adam Mayes shot and killed himself when he was confronted by members of local law enforcement

Gathering: A broadcast media team take video of the scene, where Adam Mayes shot and killed himself

The next day, officers went to Mayes’
house to question him, but he was at work. His wife Teresa allowed
officers to search their home for potential evidence.

When none was found, investigators asked the U.S. Postal Inspection Service to do a mail check on Mayes for one month.

However, when Mayes did not leap for the bait, and the allegations were considered unfounded.

Last night, local police announced
that Mayes, cornered by law enforcement officials in the woods, died of a
self-inflicted gunshot wound. The chief says a SWAT team located Mayes
and when they moved in to apprehend him, he shot himself.

Authorities
found Mayes and the two girls after acting on a tip that directed them to the area of New Albany, Mississippi, which is approximately a
half-hour drive from his home.

The
girls have been on the run with Mayes for two weeks. He and his wife,
Teresa, are charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Jo Ann
Bain, 31, and her daughter, Adrienne, 14.

Their bodies were found buried
outside the Mayes' home a week after they were reported missing by Jo
Ann Bain's husband, Gary.

Mayes' mother-in-law believes that he
killed a mother and daughter, and fled with the woman’s two youngest
daughters because he thought he was the girl’s father.

'Thank God it's over and the babies are safe,' said Teresa Mayes' sister, Bobbi Booth.

'That's all that mattered. I'm just glad it turned out the way it did.'

Josie Tate, the mother of Adam Mayes'
wife, Teresa, said that her daughter and Mayes fought often over
whether the 35-year-old man actually fathered the two youngest children
of the slain woman, Jo Ann Bain.

‘The
reasons they were arguing so much was because there were two little
girls that he was absolutely obsessed with, Tate said. ‘He was claiming
those two children were his.’

Dead: Police said that Mayes fatally shot himself when he was approached by police before they arrested him

In a tearful plea to Mayes, Tate pleaded on HLN for him to return home the two girls and turn himself in.

'You've had a chance to live life. They haven't,' she said. 'Give them that chance.'

Teresa
and Adam Mayes have both been charged with two counts of first-degree
murder, but Mayes remains on the run. The FBI has placed him on its Top
Ten Most Wanted fugitives list.

Alexandria and Kyliyah Bain went home to their father on Friday alive, with no apparent injuries other than being tired, scared and itchy from poison ivy.

They told the officers who found them that they had not had food or water for three days, said Mississippi Highway Patrol Master Sgt Steve Crawford.

Investigation: FBI agents search the backyard of Adam Mayes's Mississippi home, where he lived with his parents

Search: The FBI gathers officers for a briefing. The bodies of Jo Ann and Adrienne Bain were found at the home

Fears: The FBI, which searched the area surrounding the trailer, thinks Mayes has changed his appearance

Beverly Goodman, the aunt of the slain mother, Jo Ann Bain, said she was relieved the girls were home but still saddened by the killings of Bain and Bain's 14-year-old daughter Adrienne.

'He's been missing for so long. How do you hide out from 350 million people?' Goodman said. 'I thought they were going to find them dead - the girls and him - so I am very, very relieved that those girls are home and they're not dead, like I figured they were gonna be.'

At one point, Mayes had claimed to be the girls' father. That may be why he spared them, one criminologist said. It also may be that while he wanted to escape prosecution, as he did not believe the girls were better off dead. And he was close to the family, described as an uncle-like figure who smiled cheek-to-cheek with the girls in Facebook photos.

'He probably developed an attachment to them, and even the most vicious of killers can separate the world into people they care about, people they detest and people they don't care about,' said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University.

Hope: Hundreds gather during a vigil for the missing sisters, Alexandria and Kyliyah, in Bolivar, Tennessee

Together: The community prayed for their safe return between games at the Dixie Youth Fields

Many questions remained about what exactly happened: Investigators have not said what the girls have told them since their rescue. Officers who were there said the main focus was to get the girls to safety, not question them on the scene.

Authorities also have not said why Mayes may have wanted to kidnap the children or kill their mother and sister. And it wasn't known how they survived in the woods.

The girls were released from a hospital, officials said Friday, and reunited with relatives in Tennessee. Family spokesman David Livingston said their father, Gary Bain, was thrilled to have them back, but 'you can understand that he is extremely distraught over the loss of his wife and daughter.'

Funeral arrangements for Jo Ann and Adrienne Bain had not yet been made. Livingston said the FBI has asked that the surviving children not go out in public. They were to be interviewed by authorities on Saturday, he said.

Mayes' mother-in-law, Josie Tate, said Mayes believed he was the father of the two younger girls, but she later said she didn't believe that was true. Mayes' wife, Teresa, told authorities he killed the mother and older child so he could abduct the other two children.

FBI
officials have said they believe Bain was preparing her family to move
to Arizona, where the two older daughters were enrolled in school on and
off between the years 2004 and 2009, according to the Tucson Citizen.

Sighting: Adam Mayes is believed to be with two daughters of murdered Jo Ann Bain. He was spotted in a Guntown, Mississippi convenience store three days after they went missing

On the night before the murder, Mayes, a longtime friend of Bain's
husband, had stayed over at the family's house to help them pack and
load up a U-Haul in preparation for their move, authorities
said.

According to the warrants, Teresa Mayes told police she witnessed Adam kill Jo Ann Bain in the garage of the Bain's home in Whiteville, Tennessee, and then kill Adrienne Bain in the home itself. She added that the motive was to kidnap Bain's two younger daughters.

When back home in Guntown, Teresa
Mayes saw her husband dig a hole in the yard, she told police. The
bodies of Jo Ann and Alexandria Bain were found buried at the property a
week later. The FBI has not said how the woman and her daughter died.

Teresa Mayes' lawyer, Shana Johnson,
toldCNNthat her client is cooperating with police, but would not say
whether she knows the whereabouts of her husband of 11 years or the
girls. Johnson said on Thursday that her client last saw Mayes and the
Bain girls in Mississippi on April 27.

Teresa 'knows they were alive when she last saw them,' Johnson said.

Adam Mayes' mother was also charged with four counts of conspiracy
to commit especially aggravated kidnapping on Tuesday.

She
told police she heard digging outside her home - believed to be when
her son was digging the graves - but did not alert authorities. Both
women have been jailed in Tennessee.

Meanwhile, the FBI questioned Teresa
Mayes' mother for nearly two hours on Thursday about the possible
whereabouts of the fugitive and details of his relationship with her
family.

The day before, it emerged that
Adam Mayes was spotted in a convenience store in Union County,
Mississippi on April 30 - about three days after the family went missing.

In grainy footage released by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Mayes can be seen in the County Line One Market on
Highway 348 in Guntown with shorter hair.

Owner Nick Barghouthi said he commented on Mayes' shorter hair and the suspect acknowledged it.

The TBI have said he may have also
altered the appearance of the two missing girls by cutting or dying their hair.

Insight: Teresa Mayes (left) said she saw her
husband kill Jo Ann Bain and her daughter in Tennessee. His mother Mary
Mayes, 65, (right) has been charged with four counts of conspiracy to
commit kidnapping

Also
on Wednesday, Mayes's sister-in-law Bobbi Booth pleaded with the
fugitive via CNN to 'do the right thing and just let the children go.'

FBI spokesman Joel Siskovic told The
Associated Press on Tuesday: 'We're still working on the belief that the
youngest two daughters are
alive. We're still hopeful.'

'No words can express our elation. We know prayers brought those babies home. I can't wait to see them.'

-Dee Hart, family friend

Also speaking to AP, Teresa
Mayes' sister, Bobbi Booth, said her sister told her last week that she
knew about the killings, but Booth thinks she was too scared to call
the police.

Booth told
her sister to call the police and was assured that she had, but by
Saturday Booth had become suspicious about that claim and called police
herself.

'I told them
exactly what she had told me: Who the bodies were, where they could be
dug from,' Booth said - although investigators had begun digging the
garden the previous day.

Family: Adam Mayes's wife told police she drove the mother and her three daughters, pictured, to Mississippi

Investigation: Police believe family friend Adam Mayes abducted them and may have forced the family to cut and dye their hair to conceal their identities

Warrant: Police issued a warrant for Mayes' arrest early on in the search

Victims: The Hardeman County Sheriff's Department said Jo Ann Bain, far right, and daughters Adrienne, 14; Alexandria, 12; and Kyliyah, 8; had been missing since April 27